[pkg-bioc] how to proceed?

[Egon Willighagen]

On Saturday 19 February 2005 22:15, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> | Did you download those manually? Or do you use a script or a rsync
> | command for that?
>
> I used a wget command that is in the comments header:
>
> #      - the command
> #            wget --retr-symlinks -I"contrib/main/Descriptions" -nH -m \
> #                 "ftp://cran.us.r-project.org/contrib/main/"
> #        retrieves the top-level files as well as the Descriptions dir
> #        and nothing else

Ah. Saw that, but did not recognize it for downloading the packages itself...

> | > BioC has its own mechanism with reposTools.
> |
> | Can you send the bioc2deb.pl too?
>
> I did, actually. Didn't you get it? It should also be on alioth now.

In CVS? What's the module? CVS Browse is giving me an error:

An error occurred while loading 
http://cvs.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi?cvsroot=pkg-bioc:
Unexpected end of data, some information may be lost.

> Anyway, I'll re-attach bioc2deb.pl and BIOC2DEB.pm.
>
> | > It would be nice if you (or someone else) could try to run the script
> | > and see what happens. You will probably need to update things like
> | > build dependencies.
> |
> | Yes, I want to try to get things build. I've got a amd64 machine so that
> | would give a nice extra dimension for the packages with C/fortran/etc
> | code.
>
> Excellent news on both counts.

I'll report on it soon. I'm downloading tar.gz's now, but won't be online the 
rest of the day...

Egon

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